Coin-holder.



'Efi ME INNIS;

chm HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25. l9l5.

Patented July 2, 1918.

s PAT NT OFFIGE? :ELWOOD 1. MOGINNIS, OF ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY.

COIN-HOLDER.

arissa.

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that I, ELwoon MoG NNIs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Atlantic City, in the county of Atlantic and provide a coinholder of this character having coin receiving tubes of difi'erentdiameters above which is supported an inclined coin chute so constructedthat when coins of different denominations are deposited therein by theoperator of'the vehicle or passengers, thecoins will be directed intotubes corresponding in diameter to the diameter of the coins.

Another object of the invention'is to provide the chute with an inclinedbottom having depressions therein forming shoulders which insure coinsof like denomination being deposited in the coin receiving tubescorresponding in diameter thereto.

A further object of the invention is to provide each tube with mechanismwhich when operated by the operator of the vehicle will eject coins fromthe tubes into the hand of the operator thus allowing him to make changewith rapidity and accuracy.

With these and other objects in view, the invention resides in the novelcombination and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter describedand particularly pointed out in the claim.

lhe preferred embodiment of the invention has been illustrated in theaccompanying drawing, although no restriction is necessarily made to theprecise details of construction therein shown as changes, alterations,modifications, within the scopeof the claim may be resorted to whendesired.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout theseveral views in the drawing, in which:

Figure '1 is a face view of a com holder constructed in accordance withthe invention and showing the same applied to the steering post of anautomobile.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional View on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1918.

Application filed Hoveniher as, 1916.. Serial n 138,460.

Fig. 3 is avertical transverse'sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of a portion of the coin holder showing theejecting mechanism connected therewith.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the coin ejecting slides.

Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view through a portion of the coin chuteand tubes connected therewith.

Referring now to the drawing in detail,

the numeral 1 designates the steering post of an automobile and 2 thebase of the improved coin holder, said base having an upper face 3, abottom face 4, and sides 5 and 6. The base 2 has formed thereinelongated and transversely extending slots 7 arranged 'in spacedrelation throughout the length of the base with the slots greatlyincreasing in width toward one end thereof.

The u per face 3 of the base has formed therein a ove each slot 7 acircular opening 8, the peripheral wall of which is threaded, as at 9,said opening having communication with the slots 7 and varying in sizeaccording to the width of said slots.

The bottom face 4 of the base has formed therein below each slot 7 arecess 9 substantially semi-circular in shape in cross section andopening out through the side wall 6 of the base, said recesses alsocommunicating with the slots 7 and varying in diameter according to thewidth of the slots 7.

Depending from the bottom face 4 of the base adjacent each recess 9is alug 10.

A substantially square plate 11 is mounted to slide in each slot 7 andcorresponds in width to said slot andis provided with a centrallyarranged opening 12 corresponding in diameter to the circular opening 8in the base above the slot 7 in which the plate is arranged,

The plates 11 extend at one end beyond the side wall 5 of the base andare provided on said extending end with a down-turned flange 13.

Connected with each lug is one end of a coiled expansion spring 14, theother end of which is connected with the flange 13 on the plate 11 whichis mounted to slide in the opening 7 above said lug, said springnormally tending to hold the flange 13 in gpaced relation with the sidewall 5 of the ase.

@ne end of each plate 11 is provided in its corner with upstanding ears15 which are normally held in contact with the side wall 6 of the baseby the spring 14; and cause the openings 12 in the plates to registerwith the circular openings in the upper face 3 of the base.

Coin tubes 16 which vary in diameter to receive coins of difi'erentdenominations,

each has an end threadedly engaged in an opening 8 in the basecorresponding to the diameter of the tube for connection therewith.

The other ends of the coin tubes 16 are beveled, as at 17, and the tubesincrease in height toward the end of the base in which is formed thesmaller slot. Each tube 16 has extending laterally therefrom at itsbeveled end an attaching lug l8.

A coin chute 19 is supported in an inclined position by the beveled endsof the coin tubes 16, said chute being substantially triangular in shapein cross section to provide an inclined bottom wall 20 which isremovably connected with the'attaching lugs 18, a top wall 21, and sidewalls 22, said chute being provided at one end with a flared mouth 23. j

The slanting bottom wall 20 of the coin chute has formed therein aboveeach coin tubean opening 2 L corresponding in diameter to the insidediameter of the tube and allowing coins which pass through the chute togain access to a tube of corresponding diameter. 7

The coin tubes 16 which in this instance have been shown as three innumber correspond in diameter to the diameter of a quarter, nickel, anddime, and are arranged with relation to the flared mouth of the coinchute so that the tube which receives the dimes is nearest thereto andwith the tube thest therefrom.

shoulder 27 is arranged adjacent the tube for receiving the nickels.

The shoulder 26 is of less length and less height than the shoulder 27so that coins which pass through the chute having a greater diameterthan the diameter of a dime will be unretarded in their passage by theshoulder 26.

A clamp for the coin holder includes a strip of material 28 which isoflset between in Fig. 1 in the drawing.

its ends, as at 29, to provide the clamp with The arm 31 has connectedtherewith a I strip of resilient material 34, the ends of which arecurved, as at 35, to frictionally engage the end tubes of the coinholder, so that the coin holder may be detachably connected with thesupporting bracket as shown When the coin holder has'been connected withthe steering post of a motor vehicle .as shown in Fig. l in the drawingand a passenger on the vehicle wishes to pay his fare and deposits inthe flared mouth of the coin chute, a quarter, the same is carried downthe chute by gravity and being of greater diameter than a nickel or adime passes over the stop shoulders 27 and 26 and drops through theopening in the slanting wall of the coin chute and into the largest ofthe coin tubes,

' To return the passenger his change the operator of the vehicle placeshis hand beneath the coin holder and engages his fingers with theflanges on the plates 11 beneath the tubes holding the nickels and thedimes and by moving said plates against the influence of the springs 14,the change for the quarter will be ejected by the plates from the tubesinto the hand of the operator.

When a dime which is of less diameter than a quarter or a nickel isdropped into change can bereturned to the passenger by.

the operator op'eratingthe ejecting plate beneath the tube containingthe nickels.

When a nickel which of greater diameter than a dime is dropped into thecoin chute, it is caused to contact with one side wall of the coin chuteby the inclined bottom thereof so that as the nickel moves down thechute by gravity, it passes over the shoulder 26 which is of less depthand of less length than the shoulder 27 until it contacts with theshoulder 27 which serves to deflect the same into the tube for receivingthe nickels. From the foregoing description, taken in connection, withthe accompanying drawing,-

it is at once apparent, that a coin holder for connection with motorvehicles has beenprovided in which coins of corresponding denominationsdropped into a coin chute will be directed into corresponding coinreceiving tubes provided with'coin ejecting mechanlsm which enables theoperator of the vehicle to make change with accuracy and rapidity.

Havin thus described the invention, what is claime as new, is:

A device of the class described having 1 base having a row of circularopenings in the top thereof of different diametersand semi-circularshaped recessesin the bottom of the base opening out throughone sideo'fthe base and extending beneath said open: ings, said base havingtransversely extend-J, ing slots therein interposed between saidopenings and recesses, plates in said slots extending beyond the sidesof said base, each of said plates .having a circular opening thereincorresponding in diameter to the diameter of the opening below which theplate is mounted in the base, upstanding ears at one end of each plate,a down turned flange at the opposite end of each plate, lugs on thebottom of said base contiguous to the walls of said recesses, and coilexpansion springs terminally connected with said lugs and flangesq Intestimony whereof I afiix my signature. T; McGINNIS.

